Completed: all UK child dashboards – NOTE: Our “UK” test account is currently not available to us, so we’re running a little blind in the UK at the moment. Please report problems to: Support@SmartTiles.click.

Completed: all US child dashboards.

Completed: “[0] singleton” dashboards.

Updates are automatic – there is no need to uninstall or reinstall or reconfigure. But … If you wish to check your version number; see the top of the SmartApp Preferences / Configuration screen for each child.

Stay tuned to this Topic for more details…

Brief Release Notes:

The SmartApp is installed with the new parent/child functionality. You install “SmartThings (Connect)”, which when you open to configure, gives you the ability to add/configure up to five (5) distinct dashboards (per Location on your SmartThings Account). You heard right: We’ve added multiple dashboard support. You now get up to 5 Dashboards for the price of, well, none, actually – SmartTiles V5 is still free / donationware.

Warning: If you uninstall SmartThings (Connect) (the parent SmartApp), all its children will be destroyed and uninstalled as well. You can uninstall individual SmartTiles children only if you are in the configuration page for that child dashboard!

###Features:

Option to add unlimited “Blank Tiles” (aka: “spacer tiles” or “Tile Separators”) to your layout and arrange them among traditional tiles. These are invisible (and non-clickable) in the Dashboard but can be used for esthetic purposes. To delete any Blank Tiles, use the “Tile Arrangement” function. Further documentation on how to use this feature will follow, but give it a try and let us know what you think and questions you have.

Related to “Blank Tiles”, “Device Order” has been renamed to “Tile Arrangement”. You can access the Tile Arrangement page from inside the SmartApp configuration pages, or by temporarily replacing “/ui” in your full Dashboard URL with “/list”, as in: https://graph.api.smartthings.com/api/smartapps/installations/<your_SmartTiles_AppID_from_the_Dashboard_URL>/list ...

24 hour clock format option (vs. 12 hour clock with AM/PM).

Static assets (some icons, javascript, css) moved to Firebase by Google (instead of GitHub) for improved performance and reliability. Access of this data is currently not tracked to individual dashboards.

###Fixes:

All SmartThings schedule related methods removed. Refreshes are handled entirely through JavaScript to isolate SmartTiles from some types of bugs (update/uninstall) whose root cause was traced to scheduler.

URI for Stop Motion Video fixed so that “rand” parameter appendage should no longer throw syntax error from some particular video sources.

Switch, Light, Dimmer, Lock “toggle” endpoints replaced with with explicit “on/off” (“lock/unlock”) to slightly improve behavior consistency. State of a Tile should always imply what Command will be send to the Thing.

AJAX cache for Internet Explorer disabled.

@625alex and I are grateful for all your continued support! Please keep in mind our current "User Support Policy" as questions come up about this release. Seeing multiple reports here in the Forum will help identify any bugs we might not catch in advance:

tgauchat:

SmartTiles User Support Policy SmartTiles is free software, even though not open source, and we appreciate cash donations as gratitude and encouragement. But there’s only 2 people on this project and we’re not full time. We want to SmartTiles to succeed and grow. We’re in super “lean” mode for now (though, hmph, I haven’t been to the gym in a few days ); we can’t hire, and we can’t quit our day jobs. So… user tech support and consideration of feature requests and even bug fixes are subject to our available time and priorities. I guess the term is “best efforts basis”. For best results please follow this formula: Try to isolate your problem. If it’s due to a new device, video feed, etc., remove it and confirm. Try another browser. Test your video feed URL alone in i…

For the past few days, I noticed that when I go into SmartTiles and try to view the dashboard I get an error. “Unexpected error. You may be able to resolved this by opening the SmartApp Preferences for SmartTiles Dashboard named 'Doors and Batteries” and just pressing done or try making a small change first…

Darn. Any chance some of the Battery tiles have invalid values? Any special custom Device Types in your Things?

SmartTiles is fussy about the data coming back from some device Capabilities – we rely on Device Type Handlers to be up to spec.

At the bottom of the Preferences / Preferences settings page, there is a “Debugging Options” setting. You can change it to “Debug” (or even more detailed, “Trace”) and then go to the SmartThings API/IDE login in a separate computer browser (or incognito window), and view Live Logging. There may be some helpful output several lines before the error you can send us at: Support@SmartTiles.click.

I tried SmartTiles a long time ago but I’ve been away for awhile. Is it at all possible to use a motion trigger to automatically “pull up” a full-screen camera tile in SmartTiles? Does the architecture of the web app even support that sort of action?

I want to use a camera that can act as a motion sensor in SmartThings, OR a motion sensor + camera combination, to automatically show a large image of the camera feed when motion is detected – e.g. when someone comes up to my front door, I want the dashboard to automatically switch to showing that feed, although I don’t need to see it front and center all the time.

If that’s feasible, I’d love to see such trigger events added to the SmartTiles app. “Load this dashboard when this thing happens, and automatically return to previous dashboard when this thing stops happening” sort of logic. Would be amazing if Rule Machine and SmartTiles could somehow be made to work together.

I think this configuration might be possible using an Android device and putting SharpTools and Tasker on it.
SmartTiles won’t directly support that though as it’s just a webpage displaying data. It can be run on just about anything, so whatever device you are running it on would need to support such an action.

I’m not talking about motion by the tablet, I’m talking about motion from a SmartThings motion sensor. I know about Tasker. My use case is that I want SmartTiles to be able to pull up a camera feed when there is motion in the vicinity of that camera.

I don’t see why SmartTiles couldn’t support it; SmartTiles already gets event data in the form of switch and contact sensor status, motion sensor status, etc. The SmartThings API enables apps to subscribe to events from devices. SmartTiles could do that, and then would need a handler on the front end to, instead of simply changing a tile icon/color when a device state changes, react to that data in a different way (for example, “zooming” the camera tile up to full screen, or switching to another dashboard entirely). And of course all the options within the configuration app to enable a user to set those things up. Not super simple, sure, but I don’t see why it’s not possible.

Having the UI be able to react to events and reconfigure itself – or at least switch between dashboards as a starting point – would be incredible.